Silver hair, silver tongues, silver screen: recollection, reflection and representation through digital storytelling with older people

2020 ◽  
pp. 181-194
Author(s):  
Tricia Jenkins ◽  
Pip Hardy
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Older People ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Bureaucratic Power ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Digital Stories

This chapter discusses the use of Digital Storytelling (DS) with older people. It looks at the benefits of participation in the DS process before considering how these self-representations — organised, selected and told by individuals and shared on their terms — can break down traditional bureaucratic power structures represented by the notion of ‘archive’. The chapter presents two case studies. The first is from Patient Voices, which curates and archives digital stories made under its auspices with the intention of transforming health and social care by conveying the voices of those not usually heard to a worldwide audience. The second is from DigiTales's work with older people through the transnational action research project Silver Stories, which generated an archive of over 160 stories by older people and those who care for them, from five European countries. It shows how DS creates new possibilities for participatory and collaborative approaches to discovering and developing new knowledge, re-positioning participants as co-producers of knowledge and, potentially, as co-researchers.

scholarly journals SKILLS AND STRATEGIES OF FACILITATORS WHO CO-CREATE DIGITAL STORIES WITH PERSONS WITH DEMENTIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S453-S453
Author(s):  
Christine H Daum ◽  
Lili Liu ◽  
Kara Hollinda ◽  
David Kaufman ◽  
Arlene Astell
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Active Listening ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Digital Story ◽  
Digital Stories ◽  
Disciplinary Background

Abstract Digital storytelling combines storytelling and digital tools to create brief video clips in which narrative, images, and music are embedded, in order to share personal stories. Digital storytelling facilitators can be health and social care providers as well as care partners who collaborate with persons living with dementia to co-create their stories. These facilitators elicit people’s stories and use the technology to create the digital story. Despite their important role, there is a paucity of information on facilitators’ specific skills and strategies used in working with persons living with dementia. The purpose of this project was to examine skills and strategies used by facilitators who co-create digital stories with persons living with mild dementia. Audio recordings of 70 digital storytelling co-creation sessions conducted in three Canadian cities (Edmonton, Vancouver, Toronto) were transcribed and subjected to qualitative content analysis. Regardless of their disciplinary background, facilitators acted as weavers, bringing together narrative threads to co-construct a digital story with participants. Essential communication skills and strategies included active listening, strategic questioning, being comfortable with silence, and therapeutic responding. Building relationships and collaboration were achieved through flexibility, empathy, and encouraging autonomy. To be an effective facilitator of the digital storytelling process with older adults living with dementia, facilitators must adapt their communication strategies and relational skills to the strengths and needs of the older adults with whom they are collaborating.

Reflections on Participatory Action Research: The Case of Low-Income Women Accessing Local Physical Activity services

1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Frisby ◽  
Susan Crawford ◽  
Therese Dorer
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Poverty Line ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Active Involvement

In contrast to traditional approaches to research, participatory action research calls for the active involvement of the community—including both the beneficiaries and providers of sport services—in defining research problems, executing interventions, interpreting results, and designing strategies to change existing power structures. The purpose of this paper was to analyze a participatory action research project designed to increase the access of women living below the poverty line and their families to local physical activity services. A framework developed by Green et al. (1995) formed the basis of the analysis. To place the analysis in context, the historical origins and theoretical assumptions underlying participatory action research were addressed. The case of the Women's Action Project demonstrated how the process can result in a more inclusive local sport system and, at the same time, provide a rich setting for examining organizational dynamics including collaborative decision-making, community partnerships, power imbalances, resource control, resistance to change, and nonhierarchical structures.

scholarly journals 'Like a Dance': Working creatively with healthcare practitioners to explore mobility and osteoporosis

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-313
Author(s):  
Margaret A. Coulter Smith ◽  
Anthony Schrag ◽  
Fiona Kelly ◽  
Claire Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Fracture Risk ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Creative Arts ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Instrumental Approach ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
New Knowledge

Abstract Collaborations between health sciences and creative arts can generate insights into complex health phenomena. This article describes a creative workshop derived from an action research project that aimed to raise awareness of fracture risk in health practitioners supporting people with osteoporosis. The creative workshop aimed to provide opportunities for practitioners within the action research community to create new knowledge and share their practice insights. The article considers the notion of creative arts as a physical, embodied process that can facilitate learning by enabling tacit knowledge to be made explicit. Rather than applying an instrumental approach to arts within healthcare, the workshop became a mechanism for the convergence of ideas, disciplines and support structures and provided a learning environment where old beliefs could be challenged, practice insights shared and new knowledge constructed. We discuss the workshop development and outputs and suggest the utility of this approach for collaborative learning.

Older people and placemaking in post-disaster community rebuilding: An interdisciplinary action research in Sichuan, China

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-68
Author(s):  
Hua Dong Qi ◽  
Xuebin Gu
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Older People ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Sustainable Community Development ◽  
Major Disaster ◽  
External Assistance ◽  
Community Rebuilding ◽  
Post Disaster

It is well known that China’s population is aging, more rapidly than almost any country in recent history. In 2018, 1.67 billion or 11.9% of the population was aged 65 or older ( China Daily, 2019 ). The effect of an aging population trend is not usually represented positively—“elderly as a burden”—whether in China or elsewhere. However, our action research project of post-disaster community rebuilding in Ya’an in Sichuan Province, China challenges this mainstream discourse of elderly people. In the process, we discovered the power of the elderly who did not passively accept external assistance following the earthquake, but actively participated in rebuilding their community. They were valuable human/cultural assets and able to make a great contribution to community development. This article provides an account of interdisciplinary action research in which social workers collaborated with elderly villagers to promote sustainable community development by integrating people’s social, cultural, and economic skills into long-term reconstruction following a major disaster. Most importantly, it emphasizes the contribution of older people and challenges the dominant discourse relating to older people.

A Typology of Caregiving Situations and Service Use in Family Carers of Older People in Six European Countries

GeroPsych ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirko Di Rosa ◽  
Christopher Kofahl ◽  
Kevin McKee ◽  
Barbara Bień ◽  
Giovanni Lamura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Older People ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Family Caregiving ◽  
Service Use ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Family Carers ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Typology Of Care

This paper presents the EUROFAMCARE study findings, examining a typology of care situations for family carers of older people, and the interplay of carers with social and health services. Despite the complexity of family caregiving situations across Europe, our analyses determined the existence of seven “caregiving situations,” varying on a range of critical indicators. Our study also describes the availability and use of different support services for carers and care receivers, and carers’ preferences for the characteristics of support services. Our findings have relevance for policy initiatives in Europe, where limited resources need to be more equitably distributed and services should be targeted to caregiving situations reflecting the greatest need, and organized to reflect the preferences of family carers.

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